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There’s a lot of romance to sort of living by your own rules and sort of not subscribing to what society tells you to do, but society pushes back pretty strongly, so there’s a lot of compromise that goes with that.

Ben Affleck

I try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.
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Failure Myself Permission Success Try
The best cure for a hangover is something one straight man can’t do for another straight man.
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Alcohol Best Cure Man Sex
You’re basically the sum of all the experiences you’ve ever had, and they’re sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.
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Creation Experience Movie Reproduction See Yourself
I’m sure I can make a movie that doesn’t feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that’s my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.
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Creation Direction Greatness Movie Myself
It wasn’t my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films like Die Hard and Bladerunner that made me want to be an actor.
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Actor Childhood Fantasy Movie Myself Thief
Directing is monumentally complicated and it’s a function of all the time you pay to it. I think it would be great to do a movie I’m not in, I could just eat Fritos and just say, ‘yeah, it’s good!’ Some day.
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Complication Day Direction Function Movie Pay Time Yourself
I’m not the most loathsome man in the world. I’ve dropped to number nine.
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Appearance Man Myself World
You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.
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Charge Education Library Money Public Wasted Time Yourself
My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I’m 31-years-old, and I don’t want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It’s humiliating.
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Basement Hostel Mad Mom Myself Stay
No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done.
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Change Pay Price Yourself
When I look up at the screen and see myself I always have to laugh. Not because I think I’m doing a horrible job, quite the contrary, I just feel it’s so surreal to feel like one person can entertain so many at one time.
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Entertainment Laughter Oneself Person Quite Screen Time
The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you’re trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.
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Actor Finding Trap Trying Yourself
It doesn’t matter how you get knocked down in life, because that’s going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.
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Knock Life Yourself
There’s a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.
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Energy Internet Voice World
God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you’ll know I’ve lost all my money.
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Exploitation God Money Movie Myself
There’s something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
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Greatness Love Pure Romantic Sleep

There’s a lot of romance to sort of living by your own rules and sort of not subscribing to what society tells you to do, but society pushes back pretty strongly, so there’s a lot of compromise that goes with that.

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There’s a lot of romance to sort of living by your own rules and sort of not subscribing to what society tells you to do, but society pushes back pretty strongly, so there’s a lot of compromise that goes with that.

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